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Description: Photograph showing interior view of one of the two main battery turrets aboard the British battleship HMS Devastation, showing a rear view of the turret's two 12-inch (305 mm) 35-ton muzzle-loading rifles.
Title: HMS Devastation (1871) 12-inch gun turret interior
Credit: Scanned from Page 13 of Hodges, Peter, The Big Gun: Battleship Main Armament 1860-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1981. ISBN 0-87021-917-0. Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:HMS Devastation (1871) 12-inch gun turret interior.jpg by en:User:Mdnavman 16 May 2010.
Author: Unattributed. Assumed Royal Navy.
Permission: This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 1973; or It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1973.HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply) More information. See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.
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License: Public domain
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